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Since the 1990s I have been very involved with fighting the military "don't ask don't tell" policy for gays in the military, and with First Amendment issues. Best contact is 571-334-6107 (legitimate calls; messages can be left; if not picked up retry; I don't answer when driving) Three other url's: doaskdotell.com, billboushka.com johnwboushka.com Links to my URLs are provided for legitimate content and user navigation purposes only.
My legal name is "John William Boushka" or "John W. Boushka"; my parents gave me the nickname of "Bill" based on my middle name, and this is how I am generally greeted. This is also the name for my book authorship. On the Web, you can find me as both "Bill Boushka" and "John W. Boushka"; this has been the case since the late 1990s. Sometimes I can be located as "John Boushka" without the "W." That's the identity my parents dealt me in 1943!

Friday, September 26, 2014

On Friday, September 26, 2014, CNN aired the 90-minute HBO documentary
film “Terror at the Mall”, by Dan Reed, about the attack on the Westgate Mall in
Nairobi Kenya, Sept. 21. 2013, link here. The HBO link is here. CNN calls this “the most videod attack
in history.” The film has a great deal
of real footage, particularly of the rescues toward the end.

The responsibility for the attack was claimed by al-Shabaab,
and 71 lives were lost, including 12 children and 3 pregnant women.

The testimony of those caught in the attack is graphic, and
need not be dwelled on. I don’t know how
I would react if part of a group pinned down in any such situation. I do not think I could survive being singled
out.

Police and the military used tear gas, but had to recue
people in a limited time while the attackers recovered from the tear gas. They had do bow to the cultural imperative of
women and children first, maybe.

A woman with a baby heard the words “Lady with baby stand
up.” Then the tear gas came, and she
escaped into the main mall where now there were security forces.

A local church sent some volunteers to Kenya around
2004-2005. This actually included a covert gay male couple. That seems every more
dangerous now. And Prince William and Kate Middleton explored the early days of their relationship on a safari in Kenya.

Friday, September 05, 2014

It may seem to put two 23-minute planetarium “films”, shown
at the National Air and Space Museum, on this blog, but there is a point.

Whoppi Goldberg narrates “Journey to the Stars” with lots of
discussion of how starts and galaxies formed. She does explain supernovas. One would be significant if within a few
hundred light years of Earth, because the resultant gamma rays could fry all
life, but there is no evidence that such a specific threat really exists. But where the film gets critical (after all
the stellar art work showing the geometry of galaxies) is the discussion of how
the Sun works, how sunspots form, and what solar storms can do. She softpedals the risk, saying that the
Earth’s magnetic field deflects almost all of the radiation except near the
poles. But during the strongest storms
(resulting in the biggest coronal mass ejections) damaging magnetic pulses can
penetrate at lower latitudes, likely damaging power grid equipment during the
very largest (Carrington-sized) storms. She also describes how in a few billion
years, when the Milky Way is merging with Andromeda, the Sun will become a red
giant, the surface almost reaching Earth, or at least frying it. In time, mankind will have to learn how to
move to outer planets or to other solar systems, as in the film “Evacuate Earth”
(Aug. 30, 2013 here), or even as series like “The 100” (TV blog, March 29,
2014). Triage would have to be done, and
enormous social problems would be inevitable.

I also saw “Dark Universe”, narrated by Neil deGrasse Tyson.
It seems that the “Dark force” is
responsible for the fact that the Universe keeps expanding at a faster
rate. The Universe has no center. It’s not clear if it was infinite after the
big bang.

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